Lead Software Development Engineer

Summary

Join GoDaddy's domain search team as an Engineering Lead and contribute to building and improving their key strategic pillar. This remote position involves approximately 50% hands-on coding and 50% leadership, focusing on enhancing domain search experience, architecture, and analytics across 42 global markets. You will establish a team in India and collaborate with international partners. The role requires significant experience in building large-scale data platforms and leading engineering teams. GoDaddy offers a dynamic and flexible work environment with various benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer and/or developer-facing products & services at the Internet scale
• 3+ years of leadership or mentorship in Engineering
• Strong leadership on both the technology & people sides with rich experience in large-scale data platforms
• Strong understanding of what constitutes Good, Clean, Testable, and Reliable code and CI/CD artifacts
• Strong experience in a programming language in Java, Python, Go Lang etc
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, software designs, micro services, and cloud computing

Responsibilities

• Strive to develop, enhance, and optimise exceptional services that empower our internal customers to achieve success
• Own developing tactical execution plans, technology innovation, and selection of the right tools and frameworks, build Sprint backlog and roadmap along with Product & Program Managers, Architects, and leaders
• Drive engineering & operational excellence including automation, quality, efficiency, and productivity. Provide technical mentorship to the team including architecture, design, and code reviews
• Mainly establish a team in India, while also working together with various partners in different time zones
• Owning end-to-end performance of the squad to deliver working, quality code, and artifacts
• Provide inputs to resource requirement plans, skill assessments, and Learning/Development plans for your team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with search technology is beneficial
• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in a computer science, information system or related discipline
• Ensuring business value while maintaining quality is at the core of your mission
• Passion to develop sophisticated and cutting-edge solutions for real-world business problems
• Experience in an Agile development environment is helpful
• Experience building and being responsible for the development of highly available distributed systems using cloud technologies is a plus

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes)
• Incentive eligibility
• Equity grants
• Participation in an employee stock purchase plan
• Other family-friendly benefits including parental leave